It’s pretty widely known that Halloween is right up there on my list of annual things I hate, that I just have to “get through,” along with invasive gynaecological procedures and wasp season. So I … [Read more...]

If you've been following my Facebook page lately then you will see the complaining that I have been doing about this week. Monday reached new levels of suckage. Maggie caused a riot at Target, which … [Read more...]

My computer is limping along and I spend more time fighting with it than doing anything remotely productive on it. My favourite is when I am mid-sentence on a deadline, or just about to fire up an … [Read more...]

It's book fair time. Dangerous territory at the best of times. Sure, reading is great...GO BOOK LEARNIN' and all that...yada yada. But let's be real...that's not why the kids really go is it? It's … [Read more...]

...this time it's furniture...
I was going to write this post last night, but I had to wait until the muscle relaxants wore off. Yes, I know many of you are sitting there trying to process the fact … [Read more...]

Bikes. Damn the bikes all to hell. Now before you go thinking that it's my discomfort with the outdoors (I can HEAR you calling me 'diva' inside your head you know) or you decide to get … [Read more...]

(or merely just indications of my stupidity)Our New Minivan - with some help from my husbandThis one I never saw coming. On the surface it would appear that replacing a 10 year old death trap … [Read more...]